Unmatched Capacity
Fiber optic cable can transmit signals farther and faster. Fiber's virtually limitless capacity can allow increased bandwidth on demand and accommodate speed-sensitive data movement. SONET, DWDM or MetroE technology ensures survivability; ring diversity enables multiple hookups and ensures maximum uptime.
Protocol Independence
Multiple applications and platforms can be run simultaneously.
Assured Longevity
With a life-cycle of 20+ years, dark fiber and conduit technology virtually ensures technological longevity. Upgrades typically are done at fiber-end, which means fast, easy expansion with no cable intrusion.
Manageability
You control your network and provision your locations, data access, capacity, and traffic.
Network Power
Centralization of servers from remote offices around a city lowers operating costs and may reduce the need for high-dollar lease space. It also enables the outsourcing of data and/or applications if your needs require it.
Flexibility
You can upgrade equipment without upgrading fiber. Connectivity to carrier hotels means you can take traffic to your carrier of choice. You can choose your own carriers and equipment vendors to achieve a best-of-breed technology blend.
Security
Your network is dedicated only to you and shares no system capacity. Privacy and security are built in.
Savings
Presence on our network historically reduces local loop telecom costs. You may also capitalize equipment expense, versus incurring ongoing service costs. And your fiber cost is stable, regardless of bandwidth use.
Other ways dark fiber offers savings:
- Decreased Time to Market - Rapid deployment of your network, speeds application use and e-commerce.
- Reliability - Robust capacity reduces downtime and outage situations.
- Provisioning and Redundancy - You can provision on demand, create redundancy and have scalability and bandwidth for peak times - at no added cost.
What's Driving Dark Fiber Demand?
Applications that demand high-capacity networks:
- Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP)
- Video conferencing
- Video on-demand
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Media-streaming
- Check imaging and credit card processing
- Disaster recovery
- Network redundancy
- Storage area networks (SANs)
- GigE
Areas of Impact to Your Business:
Efficiency
- Greater efficiency with increased network uptime based on increased network reliability
- Higher bandwidth applications enabled by optical services - GigE, Fiber Channel, ESCON, FICON
Revenue and Flexibility
- Ability to increase bandwidth as your network grows while maintaining the same fiber cost
- Lower operational costs through decreased interconnection costs
Productivity
- Higher bandwidth enabled applications and lower network downtime
- You control the fiber and the fiber is dedicated to your changing needs
Financial Stability
- Our parent company, AGL Resources, is the "oldest corporation in Georgia," is a premiere gas utility distribution company primarily serving the east coast
Safety and Security
- Ring-based architectures to reroute traffic in the event of a failure
- The vast majority of the fiber is buried and in conduit reducing chances of a network interruption
- Proactive physical and optical monitoring reduces the risk of network outages